Friday, April 1, 2011

SANJAY GUPTA MD – Airs Saturday at 7:30AM – 8:00AM; Sunday at 7:30AM – 8:00AMCNN chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta reports on the tragic end of Shane Dronett, who starred on the 1998 Atlanta Falcons Super Bowl team, but died 11 years later at his own hand. There's new evidence his death is connected to head injuries suffered on the field. Dr. Gupta also interviews teen actor, Isaac Lidsky, who made a dramatic career shift from Hollywood to becoming a lawyer after losing his eyesight, and speaks with Nathan Myhrvold - one-time Microsoft, Corp. executive who is now a cookbook author.

THE SITUATION ROOM WITH WOLF BLITZER – Airs Saturday 6:00PM – 7:00PM

Topic: Crisis in LibyaGuest: Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-MI)

Topic: Crisis in LibyaGuest: James Zogby, president, Arab American Institute

Anchor: Wolf Blitzer

UNWELCOME: THE MUSLIMS NEXT DOOR – Airs Saturday 8:00PM – 9:00PM, 11:00PM and Sunday 2:00AM – 3:00AMMurfreesboro, Tennessee (pop. 100,000) is home to 190 churches… and one mosque. Five times a day members of the Muslim community gather in Islamic Center of Murfreesboro to pray… men in one room, women and children in another. Muslims have lived in Murfreesboro for decades, yet when plans to build a new mosque were approved this summer, questions were raised and the resulting backlash and acts of vandalism revealed a community divided by deep-rooted suspicions about Muslims, and Islam. Ten years after 9/11, CNN anchor and special correspondent Soledad O’Brien reports the story of Muslims and non-Muslims, from Murfreesboro to Manhattan, struggling to find common ground in America.

SUNDAY, April 3, 2011

SANJAY GUPTA MD – Airs Saturday at 7:30AM – 8:00AM; Sunday at 7:30AM – 8:00AMCNN chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta reports on the tragic end of Shane Dronett, who starred on the 1998 Atlanta Falcons Super Bowl team, but died 11 years later at his own hand. There's new evidence his death is connected to head injuries suffered on the field. Dr. Gupta also interviews teen actor, Isaac Lidsky, who made a dramatic career shift from Hollywood to becoming a lawyer after losing his eyesight, and speaks with Nathan Myhrvold - one-time Microsoft, Corp. executive who is now a cookbook author.

Topic: Civil war in Libya; Unrest in Yemen and Syria; Is Gadhafi likely to go into exile? Guest: Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski, former National Security Advisor (Carter Administration), counselor and trustee, Center for Strategic & International Studies

Topic: Civil war in Libya: What role is Al-Qaeda playing in the revolution?Guest: Noman Benotman, former leader of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group; senior analyst, Quilliam Foundation

Topic: What are the U.S. / NATO / E.U. roles in Libya, Syria, Yemen? What is the CIA learning about the regimes and the opposition groups? Guest: Robert Baer, former CIA operative, author, Time.com columnistGuest: Richard N. Haass, PhD, president of the Council on Foreign RelationsGuest: Bernard-Henri Lévy, French philosopher, author Public EnemiesGuest: Robert Worth, Middle East correspondent, The New York Times

CNN PRESENTS: EYEWITNESS TO MURDER – THE KING ASSASSINATION- Airs Sunday 7:00PM – 9:00PMCNN anchor and special correspondent Soledad O’Brien describes how escaped convict and armed robber James Earl Ray spent a year on the run – pausing for plastic surgery and robbery before his path collided with civil rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in Memphis, Tennessee in 1968. Through interviews with first-person eyewitnesses and investigators, O’Brien retraces the steps of King, Ray and investigators and explores alternative scenarios of what happened on April 4, 1968. O'Brien asks who was ultimately responsible for the murder that, for some, may have meant the end to the U.S. Civil Rights Era.

STALKER: THE REAGAN SHOOTING – Airs Sunday 11:00PM – 12:00AMCNN investigative correspondent Drew Griffin reports on the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan on March 30, 1981. Weaving CNN's dynamic coverage of the events as they happened 30 years ago, with new interviews from eye witnesses, Griffin speaks to Jerry Parr, one of the U.S. Secret Service agents who saved Reagan’s life, and Drs. Joseph Giordano and Wesley Price - who treated President Reagan at George Washington University Hospital.

Down goes CNN. If TVN has what it callsthe CNN plan , CNN will be 5th i prime time. It is clear the news saved CNN yetthey think the need more opinion in prime time. Can you say loser. Thereis too much of this already in cable news.So much for CNN getting it. They don't.

Now that it appears Katie Couric is leavingCBS, CNN should hire her to host the 1stall female journalists show on cable newsin prime news. Make Couric the host butrotate all of the female journalists that areon CNN, HLN, CNN I & CNN Espanol.CNNneeds women anchoring in prime timeinstead of Elliot Spitzer & Piers Morgan.Women talk about the news and reallyinteresting topics. I willing to be thatOReilly and The Last Word don't bringin female viewers.